Intelligent Design vs. Casino Universe

Your swollen egos

Made for you while your 30 mikes of Diazepam dissolve in your beer

You seem to be drawn to men in tu-tus.

Have anything to add to the discussion? Your ignorance of the earliest life on the planet is obvious.

As far as I kow, theres not one reference to any kind of microscopic life mentioned in KJV.

You cannot make a single statement with one subject and one predicate without reading it before that from some book

Aha, you will start confessing that KJV is under your pillow.

to introduce geometrical method into practical life is "like trying to go mad .with the rules of reason," attempting to proceed by a straight line among the tortuosities of life, as though human affairs were not ruled by capriciousness, temerity, opportunity, and chance. Similarly, to arrange a political speech according to the precepts of geometrical method is equivalent to stripping it of any acute remarks and to uttering nothing but pedestrian lines of argument.

I bet there is no C.P. Snow books on your five foot bookshelf. However copious you might claim such a magnificent structure to be. I have one of those containing nothing but books on the Classical culture. In fact I have four such items in other rooms because my library is full.

Literature is not something to wear whilst mincing along the catwalk.



Vico's position here and in later works is not that the Cartesian method is irrelevant, but that its application cannot be extended to the civic sphere. Instead of confining reason to a string of verifiable axioms, Vico suggests (along with the ancients) that appeals to phronêsis or practical wisdom must also be made, as do appeals to the various components of persuasion that comprise rhetoric. Vico would reproduce this argument consistently throughout his works, and would use it as a central tenet of the Scienza Nuova.

A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: 'Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?'

I now believe that if I had asked an even simpler question – such as, What do you mean by mass, or acceleration, which is the scientific equivalent of saying, 'Can you read?' – not more than one in ten of the highly educated would have felt that I was speaking the same language. So the great edifice of modern physics goes up, and the majority of the cleverest people in the western world have about as much insight into it as their Neolithic ancestors would have had.

More likely Id read it several decades before.

If you wish to deny the veracity of researchers from which my posts are built.

My colleagues who are also devout Christians refer to your ilk as mere "cultists" who need to avoid science and the scientific method like hot acid.

Believing in the inerrancy of an ancient Book of moral tales over a century objective data collection and analyses does take some commitment on your end.

No, I mean the actual, scientific, rational, detailed, precise meaning.

It is more than obvious that your data and information ... and understanding of the world are highly outdated.

FM, you don't have the slightest idea what is the Bible all about, who 'wrote' it, how and why

Im not sure how you arrive at this assertion since you have no idea at all about what you are speaking.